Innocent - Definition

adj 1: free from evil or guilt; "an innocent child"; "the
principle that one is innocent until proved guilty" [syn:
innocent, guiltless, clean-handed] [ant: guilty]
2: lacking intent or capacity to injure; "an innocent prank"
[syn: innocent, innocuous]
3: free from sin [syn: impeccant, innocent, sinless]
4: lacking in sophistication or worldliness; "a child's innocent
stare"; "his ingenuous explanation that he would not have
burned the church if he had not thought the bishop was in it"
[syn: innocent, ingenuous]
5: not knowledgeable about something specified; "American
tourists wholly innocent of French"; "a person unacquainted
with our customs" [syn: innocent(p), unacquainted(p)]
6: completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight";
"young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of
literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" [syn:
barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent]
7: (used of things) lacking sense or awareness; "fine innocent
weather"
n 1: a person who lacks knowledge of evil [syn: innocent,
inexperienced person]